August Wilson
Birth date: April 27, 1945
Died: October 02, 2005
August Wilson's Books
At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the ...
bookshelves: radio-3, pulitzer, play-dramatisation, autumn-2011, north-americas, published-1987 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from November 24 to 28, 2011 Sunday play - August Wilson's play about a brother and sister and a piano carved with African faces.blurb - In August Wilson's Puli...
Generic themes, but the psychology is candid and complicated, and the swaths broad. It covers the individual, the family, the society, life, death, heaven and hell without leaving the yard. At only about 100 pages, this is a play that is worth reading every single words or it. Definitely will be loo...
Sunday play - August Wilson's play about a brother and sister and a piano carved with African faces.blurb - In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in Pittsburgh in 1936, an ancient upright piano carved with African faces dominates the parlour of Doaker Charles. Boy Willie and his partner...